Dolly Parton Quotes

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

Dolly Parton

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• My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Band
  • Enough
  • Copies